Department of Public and Occupational Health, EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, , Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Br J Sports Med. 2014 Jun;48(11):878-82. doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2012-092136. Epub 2013 Mar 19.
High costs and personal burden follow sports and physical activity-related injuries (SPRI). The last decades' knowledge on how to prevent SPRIs has grown. Past years' eHealth is emerging and mobile applications (apps) helping to prevent SPRIs are appearing.
To review the content of iPhone and iPad apps containing a claim to prevent sports and physical activity-related injuries and to appraise this claim against best available scientific evidence.
The US iTunes App Store was searched using the keywords 'injury', 'prevention' and 'rehabilitation'. Apps within the categories 'health & fitness', 'sports' and 'medical' containing a preventive claim in the app name, description or screenshots were included. Claims were extracted and a search for best available evidence was performed.
Eighteen apps met our inclusion criteria. Four of these apps contained claims for which evidence was available: three apps covered ankle sprains and provided information on taping or neuromuscular training. Of these three apps, one app also provided information on prevention of dental injury with mouth guards. One app provided a routine to prevent anterior cruciate ligament injury. The main focus of the five apps was running injury prevention; for their content evidence of absence of efficacy was found. For nine apps no evidence supporting their content was found.
f 18 apps included, only four contained claims that could be supported by available literature and five apps contained false claims. This lack of scientifically sound apps provides an opportunity for caretakers to develop apps with evidence-based claims to prevent SPRIs.
与运动和体力活动相关的损伤（SPRI）会带来高昂的成本和个人负担。过去几十年，人们对如何预防 SPRI 的了解有所增加。近年来，电子健康（eHealth）开始兴起，帮助预防 SPRI 的移动应用程序（apps）也开始出现。
审查声称可预防运动和体力活动相关损伤的 iPhone 和 iPad 应用程序的内容，并根据最佳现有科学证据评估该声称。
使用“损伤”、“预防”和“康复”等关键词，在美国 iTunes App Store 上进行搜索。包含预防声称（在应用名称、描述或屏幕截图中）的“健康与健身”、“运动”和“医疗”类别的应用程序被纳入研究。提取声称并搜索最佳可用证据。
有 18 个应用程序符合我们的纳入标准。其中四个应用程序包含有证据支持的声称：三个应用程序涵盖了踝关节扭伤，并提供了关于贴扎或神经肌肉训练的信息。这三个应用程序中，有一个应用程序还提供了关于使用防护牙套预防牙科损伤的信息。一个应用程序提供了预防前交叉韧带损伤的常规方案。五个应用程序的主要重点是跑步损伤预防，但对于其内容，没有发现有效性的证据。对于九个应用程序，没有发现支持其内容的证据。
在纳入的 18 个应用程序中，只有四个包含可通过现有文献支持的声称，五个应用程序包含虚假声称。缺乏科学合理的应用程序为护理人员提供了机会，他们可以开发出具有基于证据的 SPRI 预防声称的应用程序。
